ToeJam & Earl

12th Mar, 1991

ToeJam & Earl is an early 1990s dungeon crawler for the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive. The game features two alien rappers, who have crash-landed on Earth and parodies 1980s urban culture. The game’s design was heavily influenced by the role-playing video game Rogue, and took from it such features as the random generation of levels and items. Played from a 2D-top-down perspective the game contains both single-player and two-playe... Read More

Good 94%January 1st, 2015

Toejam & Earl is definitely not a children's game. There are simply too many satiric references on modern society and (primarily) late 1980s pop-culture which you simply can't understand before reaching a certain level of education. Your deadliest enemies in this game for instance are swarms of killer bees, wacky dentists, invisible bogey-men, tomato-bombing chicken, nerds and - last but not least - ice-cream vans which in a late stage of the... Read More

Storyline

Two funk-loving aliens named ToeJam and Earl crash-land on a weird planet called Earth after colliding with a meteorite. Soon they realise that they’re dealing with a hostile planet, whose crazy inhabitants will do everything possible to put the harmless aliens six feets under. Aided by a few friendly Earthlings and random item-boxes spread around the planet, ToeJam and Earl start their adventure through 25 levels in order to find 10 pieces of their spaceship so they can get back to their home-planet Funkotron.